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Under pressure, Crimean leaders backed down and rescinded the resolution, & but not before Russian Vice President Alexander Rutskoi, the Kremlin's standard-bearer for increasingly influential Russian nationalists, blasted Ukrainian politicians for portraying Russia as "an insidious empire" and trying to break up the Commonwealth. "The referendum in Crimea must be held, and no one can ban it with force or with threats," Rutskoi insisted in a newspaper article. Two days later, in a closed-door session, the Russian parliament upped the ante by voting to annul the 1954 transfer of the Crimea to Ukraine as "an illegal...
GOVERNMENT RIVALS. One of the government's most outspoken critics is the man legally entitled to take over if Yeltsin should depart: Vice President Alexander Rutskoi. He provided key support when his Communists for Democracy faction split with party hard-liners and backed Yeltsin's campaign for Russia's top post. Yeltsin rewarded him with the second spot, but since last fall Rutskoi has turned on his boss with a very public campaign against the economic reform plan of Deputy Prime Minister Yegor Gaidar. Though a proponent of reform in principle, Rutskoi recently described Gaidar's program of freeing prices...
...Though Rutskoi has carefully avoided criticizing Yeltsin personally, the President has moved to limit his erstwhile ally's authority and recently assigned him the thankless agricultural portfolio. But Yeltsin has stopped short of trying to oust Rutskoi, possibly because he considers it wiser to tolerate a rebellious Vice President than to have him lead an opposition campaign. "Rutskoi can only form a viable party if he resigns," says Tretyakov. As if preparing for such a move, Rutskoi has lately been sounding nationalist themes along with his economic critiques...
...weeks ago, the vice president of the Russian Federation, Alexander Rutskoi, quietly informed U.S. Ambassador Robert Strauss about an early version of a speech that had been prepared for Boris Yeltsin to deliver last Monday, on the eve of Gorbachev's departure for Madrid. The draft declared the U.S.S.R. defunct and Yeltsin's government the protector of 25 million ethnic Russians in the outlying republics...
Strauss notified Washington about what Yeltsin might say, and Bush fired back instructions for him to register official American concern with Rutskoi and Yeltsin's foreign minister, Andrei Kozyrev -- in effect, an appeal to make the speech less provocative. In the version Yeltsin finally delivered, he announced a new round of radical economic reforms, virtually dissolved most of the Soviet ministries and nominated himself to the vacant post of Russian prime minister. But he stopped just short of proclaiming Russia the successor state to the U.S.S.R., effective immediately...